photography is an obsession of mine
love taking snaps by design
the capturing of moments that align
my passion for chasing sunshine
and seeing how its beauty imitates the divine
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
"Lens and Leaf"
The alley looks quite good to look around.
She followed the trail like a tail.
Chirping Wings Melodies is one of the hosts.
The glow of sunray's is enough to release 'serotonin.'
Leaves are proving their presence with a peaceful waft of air.
Moral of the nature "Someone's darkness is not everyone's."
This present deserves to be algorithmic memory.
Her camera got greedy doesn't want to be steady.
A nature of endless green seems another capable scene for her camera's memory.
Life has changed so much in merely two weeks
Life was hard and traumatic at times
Now it is just grey with grief
The beauty of friendship is still here,
A sunrise still fills the sky with wonderful colors
But life just feels muted and dingy
M-ind
A-ll
Y-our
E-yes
S-ee,
C-ounting
O-n
B-eholding
E-veryday
R-eality
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Monocrostic (Birthday of May L. Escober)
Courageous stories end courageous words, issuing peaceful assemblies
Laid away as day was valued, enjoyed without symbol
Divisive victory hiding overtures of bread
Hardships and arrogance about how we fed
In adams apple, the evening gowns
And cities skied believing hounds
Talks behind, collard barrels as wine
Another stretch and dance
A loft, building a glance
So far ahead the subway can fly
Counting callouses torn, empty greetings sigh
Departing mystery of burning sisterly
Caverns of sounds
Jostling of crowns
The Lord is faithful to forgive His children
when we repent sincerely of our sins.
He’ll redirect us to the path He’s chosen
and help us view life through the proper lens.
Things taught black and things taught white
When I was young and caged,
Became a brilliant-colored quilt
When teens rushed through my age.
Things swarmed shadowed shades of gray
Once I turned middle-aged,
Then circled back to black and white
As I became a sage.
A pure white dove
fans its tail feathers.
A scurrying chipmunk
misses the show.
My eye took it all in
while the world blinked.
Back home
the picture I took
just before the tail display,
will always be mildly
disappointing,
yet that next image
(the one not caught),
will long remain,
the one
I most clearly see.
science zoom in on a disturbance
science zoom in on a lens of the universe
science disturb the lens of the universe
science create or disturb the lens of the universe
science create or zoom in on the lens of creativity
creativity zoom in on creativity
creativity is a lens of creativity
the universe create the lens of creativity
disturbance zoom in on disturbance
to zoom is to zoom in on creativity
a world create the lens of a world
a global world is a global lens
creation is a global world
a lens is a global lens
a lens is a global lens of the universe
creation is a global lens of creation
creation is a global lens of the universe
creativity create creativity
a lens of creativity is a lens of the universe
creativity disturb creativity
disturb is disturbing creativity
A constant buzz of busyness
Continually swarming us
Easy to get dragged down
Caught up in the fuss
While in the moment
All you can say is c’mon
Poked like a voodoo doll
The pain keeps piling on
Balancing your emotions
What a rollercoaster ride
Walking on a tightrope
Just trying to get to the other side
Starting to change my stance
What I viewed before as a hinderance
Is actually where the happiness lies
Just couldn’t see through the interference
Zooming out my focus
Seeing through a new lens
Realizing the small moments now
Are really life’s little gems
Daily drama no longer a downer
Instead cherishing my mess
Because when it’s gone for good
I’ll remember these times were the best
Warsaw 1940 certain inhabitants designated
A health risk were ordered to strip naked
Had to shower to become clean this ploy
Caused public humiliation, and showed
Dominence there was also mass quarrantine
Also to your own house that was
Useless in its 'so called mission'
And in fact caused a rise in infection
As the immune systems of people
Lowered due to length of confinement
this was a take on the tried and
Tested method (the public heakth emergancy)
Pioneered earlier that decade in Germany
In declaring a public health emergency i think
In 1933?, this enabled opening the way for martial law
Which was the springboard hitler craved to get
Complete control of the German populace
Any person of Germanic nationality over the age
Of forty years in age, should be able to validate
These events as also george psoriasus and
klaus the louse would be emminently qualified
To so do.' At this moment in the UK a rise in
Typhoid cases is being flagged up by the health
Department..
Image in Light
Images are light
Well an image is recorded
by and in light
Light which passes through a lens to strike a retina or a
photosensitive surface with an attached brain either
physiological or material
to percieve
I could say that an observer gives existence to an image
though this existence is not dependent on perception by an observer In a sense it is like S's cat in a box The image exists yet does not exist
For this percieved image is not its only existential form It exists in an array of photons
never needing to pass through a lens to perception
Many there must
be each a record???
of passing points
in time each point
recorded by photons
An image in light an
Image is Light
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The Art of a Dying Man
David J Walker
The dam was broken and
The man trying to save it
Worked alone
As we watched
through the lens
of an iPhone
hoping to capture
the moment of collapse
As the names of hero’s
have changed on plaques
of a media enriched society
Where watchers become stars
in the constellation of
the unintended casts of extras
Hoping for name recognition
in obscured credits as the
handheld video ends
I am the fireman
I am the cop
I am an opportunistic
photographer
The chronicler of
Interesting misery
I can be the medic with
A bandage for your
Sucking wounds
If you sing a death rattle
I will shine the light of
My iPhone to help you find
The way home
I will document your parting
Where it will be viewed
In the Wake of social media storm
Entitled the Art of a Dying Man
Reading between thin lines, holes begin to appear
Not redactions or errata, pixelation becomes clear
Cross within a circle, new configuration's designed
Simultaneously hits home, blowing away our mind
By
David Kavanagh
Pen and lens
are the two main things to my living
for instance.
By these two I capture all,
all those are not in my fate at all!
A beautiful sky,
a moment thereby.
A lover's heart
who is not near, not far apart!
Sometimes a moonlit night,
or sometimes the decaying time which I want to hold tight.
Or the emotions by which I can make him stay.
By which I can convince him to walk together, a long way.
As in my fate lose is destined,
therefore I try to hold everything,
by my pen, by my lens,
forever sustain.
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